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Dilution of shares and entrepreneurs’ relief

13th March 2018

In the Autumn Budget 2017 the Chancellor announced that there would be changes to entrepreneurs’ relief to address the situation where an individual’s shareholding is diluted to below 5% because of a fresh issue of shares by the company.

It is proposed that with effect from 6 April 2019 where there is a fundraising event that dilutes an individual’s shareholding to below 5% that individual will be able to elect to be treated as having disposed of and immediately reacquired their shares at the then market value, and will also be able to defer the taxation of the gain until an actual disposal of shares takes place.

The objective is to promote enterprise by ensuring that early investors are not penalised because of the growth plans of a company in which that individual has invested.